"Your Excellency, your Excellency." A war horse ran over quickly, but at a distance of 500 meters, it was intercepted by Wei Wuji's personal cavalry, and when it reached a range of 200 meters, it was stopped by Zhang Qiang's cavalry guards, and after some conversation, he was taken to the entrance of the river embankment, and Zhang Qiang's personal cavalry took over and took him to Zhang Qiang.

"The commander of the Wuyi County Guard, Lord Hu Kui's personal guard cavalry, see Your Excellency." The cavalry looked like a dusty man, and immediately knelt down when he saw Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang was discussing with Jin Sheng how to place those meritorious soldiers in the army, and when he saw his appearance, Wen Sheng asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The cavalry took out a letter from his bosom, "Lord Dudu, Lord Hu is an urgent official document." ”

Zhang Qiang took the letter from the hands of his own guard cavalry, and saw that it was stamped with the big seal of Hu Kui, the commander of the guard, and the word urgent, and couldn't help frowning.

Hurriedly opened the letter, and when he saw it, Zhang Qiang rubbed his forehead and said, "He Jin and Lin Yangcheng are really not worry-free." ”

Wei Wuji asked worriedly, "My lord, have they defected?" ”

Jin Sheng also asked worriedly: "My lord, the county town of Jinyun and the county seat of Xin'an where they are stationed are important roads connecting Taizhou Mansion and Jinhua Mansion, if they cut it off, my two military and political offices will be very passive." ”

Zhang Qiang nodded, "It's not that serious, I've already asked Tang Dianfeng to garrison the young general in Xin'an County, Lin Yangsheng and He Jin are both in the same place at this time, stationed in Jinyun County, I'm not afraid of them rebelling, the two of them have a combined strength of only more than 3,000 people, three hundred households, and all of them are the people of their old camp Liukou, and the Qing army captured soldiers, but, alas, they didn't rebel, but they made their own decisions and attacked the Qing army in the state capital." ”

"Ah, how is that good? Our army has just settled down, and the current situation is that the Qing army encircled and suppressed other Southern Ming forces, although we were surrounded on three sides, but the Qing army had no time to take care of our army, it was the time to recuperate, develop people's livelihood, and rapidly expand our economic strength, and it was not appropriate to go to war with the Qing army again. ”

Jin Sheng said hatefully.

Wei Wuji was also worried, and said hurriedly: "My lord, Quzhou Mansion also has a large army of the Qing army, and Zhang Cunzhe, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, is personally in charge to protect the rear of Li Chengdong's army. How did this matter end? ”

Jin Sheng said again: "My lord, now there are displaced people who need to be resettled, and the squires in the refugees are troublesome, although Jinhua Mansion has a lot of troops, it can only stabilize the mansion, and it is impossible to send more troops to fight abroad." ”

Zhang Qiang really wanted to catch these two people and kill them to vent his anger, but they had already taken their headquarters and horses towards Chuzhou.

From the third year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (1452 AD), the state government has jurisdiction over 10 counties of Lishui, Songyang, Jinyun, Qingtian, Suichang, Qingyuan, Xuanping, Yunhe, Longquan and Jingning. Zhilishui County (Liandu District, Lishui City) established the Prefecture Military and Political Branch after the Xinhai Revolution in 1911.

The mountainous land of this prefecture is more dense than the Jinhua Mansion and Taizhou Mansion occupied by Zhang Qiang, the roads are mostly mountain roads, rivers, and it is difficult to walk, and the territory of ten counties, even if Zhang Qiang wants to defend the relationship between the Qing army and the Tartars, he ordered He Jin to take Jinyun County, lock the road of the Qing army from Chuzhou, and prevent the Qing army from cutting off his lazy waist when he attacked Taizhou Mansion and besieged the area of Xianju County, Taizhou Prefecture.

He didn't want to attack the state capital, because it was difficult to defend, it was difficult to march, and there were too few generals under his command to station an army in every important place.

The larger the territory won, the more difficult it is to digest and the heavier the burden.

He has just taken the Taizhou Mansion, and he has not yet fully digested it, and is trying to stabilize the place, and the troops are already very scattered, if he enters the Prefecture Capital again, his 50,000 troops sound like a lot, and once they are scattered, there will be a danger of being broken by the Qing Army, and when the time comes, the other Prefecture will not be able to take it, and the Qing Army will counterattack, and he will even lose most of the Taizhou Mansion or Jinhua Mansion.

He Jin and Lin Chengcheng are really good at finding things for him.

"My lord, to save or not to save?" Wei Wuji asked.

"There are many mountains, many rivers, and long roads, it is not suitable for the army to march, it is not good to garrison, it is difficult to supply, if there is something, it is not appropriate to reinforce it." Jin Sheng sighed.

"Send troops." Zhang Qiang only hesitated a little and then made up his mind.

Jin Sheng asked, "My lord, how do you arrange the troops of the two provinces?" Whoever to bring to their rescue,"

"Zhao Siyang stayed, took over Mi Chun to guard the place he defended, Mi Chun led the personal guards to lead Zhao Siyang's troops of one thousand households and four hundred households to follow me on the expedition, Wei Wuji, you need to cooperate with Lord Jin Sheng to guard Jinhua Mansion for me, so that Tang Dianfeng can take over the defense of Jinyun County, Xin'an County, Wuyi County, Yongkang County, and the four counties."

Jin Sheng frowned, "My lord, can a young man who has just taken refuge in the rebel army for a month take on such a heavy responsibility?" That's our waist, once the enemy attacks from the flank, can he deal with it alone? ”

Zhang Qiang said: "There is no way, we have no one in our hands, Wei Wuji manages the military administration of Jinhua Mansion, you manage the civil affairs of Jinhua Mansion, Zhou Congee manages the civil affairs of Taizhou Mansion, Du Ge manages the military administration of Taizhou Mansion, Xuanyuan Longfei needs to help me look at Zhang Ying, look at the seaside, and I can't draw people." can only let him reluctantly go into battle, Wei Wuji, you have nothing to worry about over there, Jin Sheng, you have also organized the rebel army to fight, and you have to worry more about the military and political affairs, and remind Lord Wei at the right time. ”

Jin Sheng nodded Ying Yong, and said to Zhang Qiang worriedly: "Even if we don't have any barriers, take the state capital, then it will be bordered by Wenzhou Mansion and Jianning Mansion and Quzhou Mansion on three sides, and the state capital will be under pressure from the Qing army on three sides. ”

"Don't worry, I know that."

After finalizing the details on the third day and resting for a few days, Zhang Qiang took more than 4,000 of his direct subordinate troops and handed over the new cavalry unit of a thousand households to Hu Kui to lead, and Mi Chun led Zhao Siyang's artillery battalion with a thousand households to go west from Wuyi County.

At the same time, in Songyang County, a team of cavalry escorted a carriage walking on a rugged mountain road, in the distance, a fire dragon quickly advanced along the mountain road, and a hundred Han army banner cavalry with three hundred Mongolian cavalry closely followed the carriage convoy in front.

In Tingzhou Mansion, Li Chengdong took back the monocular copper telescope given by the Portuguese, and said to the Qing generals beside him: "Continue to increase the siege of the city, and we must take the enemy's first city wall today."

In the capital city of Lishui, the county seat of Lishui, He Jin and Lin Yang looked at the towering city wall of Lishui County, looked at the defeated Jinhua Righteous Army, shook their heads, Lin Chengcheng's face was ugly, the two of them glanced at each other, Lin Yangcheng said: "Brother He, it's better for us to withdraw the army, don't be in a hurry." ”

He Jin held his hands and said hatefully: "No, never, if we take the state capital city, our status in the rebel army will no longer be a rogue, and we will no longer be underestimated, I have had enough of those people's anger, even small soldiers can give us a white eye, I will definitely not be a guard, I will be a fierce general." ”

Lin Chengcheng shook his head and persuaded: "Why bother, I don't think this army has any climate, I heard that He Yilong and Lao Huihui have established a base in Yingshan County, and they are fighting against the Qing army, so it is better for us to lead the army back, thinking that our five battalions of soldiers worked together to cross the north and south, how free and easy, and now they are under the fence, it is really not a taste." ”